Physicians Overall Are Evenly Divided on PPACA being a “Good Start,” But Different Kinds of Docs Hold Starkly Different Views: Deloitte Study

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Physicians Overall Are Evenly Divided on PPACA being a “Good Start,” But Different Kinds of Docs Hold Starkly Different Views: Deloitte Study  By Donald Yacoe  In what may be a surprise, doctors in general are evenly divided on whether PPACA represents a positive step for health reform, a just-released national survey from Deloitte has found. [...]

Does Society Have a Responsibility to Help the Poor with Health Care?

  Does Society Have a Responsibility to Help the Poor with Health Care? Two Recent Examples from the Debate over this Issue  Some important public exchanges of ideas have recently underscored the core debate about society’s responsibility—or lack thereof—to help provide health care for those who cannot pay for it completely on their own.  Here [...]

Is the Individual Mandate Necessary?

Center Director Len M. Nichols, and others, have written extensively on this question.  A recent summary of earlier work is here. Recent controversy on the question has been fueled by a recent study by Lewin Group researchers.  Be sure and read Wake Forest Law Professor Mark Hall’s reaction to this paper before making up your [...]

Does Society Have a Responsibility to Help the Poor with Health Care? Two Recent Examples from the Debate over this Issue

  Does Society Have a Responsibility to Help the Poor with Health Care? Two Recent Examples from the Debate over this Issue by Donald Yacoe  Some important public exchanges of ideas have recently underscored the core debate about society’s responsibility—or lack thereof—to help provide health care for those who cannot pay for it completely on [...]

Inside Deficit Reduction, Now What? Len Nichols speaks at Alliance for Health Reform

On December 2, 2011, Len M. Nichols spoke at the Alliance for Health reform in Washington, DC. The event was sponsored by the Alliance for Health Reform, The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the SCAN Foundation, and the Commonwealth Fund. This is a clip of that event.   To view [...]

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Nichols chosen as founding Editor-in-Chief of Community on Payment Innovation

  Len Nichols’ role as editor-in-chief is to plan, review, edit, solicit, and contribute content to inform specialist physicians and the policy community generally about new incentive arrangements as they are implemented and proposed in both the public and the private sectors. This is a joint project of the American College of Cardiology and the [...]

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